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25. August 2006, 12:12Yet another photoblog |
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It’s out in the wild. Convert your WordPress 2.x installation into a full featured photoblog in virtually no time. Use the full range of WordPress functions and plugins: Benefit from the big community WordPress has to offer. |
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What is YAPB / What can you expect?
- A non invasive WordPress-plugin that converts wp into a easy useable photoblog system
- Easy image upload - All wordpress post-features can be used
- On the fly thumbnail generation - Use multiple thumbnail sizes where and when you need them: Thumbnail generation gets controlled from the template.
- EXIF data processing and output
- Self-learning EXIF filter - Your own cameras tags can be selected to be viewed.
- Full i18n-Support through gnutext mo/po files
- YAPB Plugin Infrastructure for extended functionality
- Ping additional update-service-sites when posting a photoblog entry.
- Nearly every WP-theme can become a photoblog in virtually no time.
You’ll get a photoblog system based on wordpress - Decide if you want to post a normal Wordpress article or a photoblog entry. Be free to use all available extensions / plugins of the WordPress platform ;-)
3 Steps to your WordPress Photoblog
Screenshots
The idea
Why another photoblog system?
There aren’t many open source photoblog systems out there in the wild. I searched a long time and found only few. Evaluated all of them and decided to program one on myself, since none of them met my demands. I did that about three times - Every version was build up from the scratch. Every version was better and much more flexible. More cool and finally more proprietary.
Every time i saw a feature in another blog system that i wanted to have - i had to spend much of my rare spare time to design, program and integrate it into my own photoblog system. After implementing some features like captcha, ping and trackback, etc. etc. i decided that this was just a waste of time.
There already was a system out there having lot’s of features and a huge community: WordPress. Yapb is my try to build on a wide spread platform - And to get what i want - As a photographer and programmer.
Why not use services like Flickr, Deviantart, etc. etc. ?
Why hazzle with renting a suitable webhost, installing a photoblog software, configuring the whole stuff, eventually solve problems, searching and installing a cool theme, etc. etc. - If i can have it all (and more) with one click at Flickr, Deviantart, etc. etc. ?
I’m only able to give you a hint on my opinion why i don’t want to host my images on such a service. Fortunately, for the impatient among us, it can be told with only three (and a half) words:
It’s my image.
Post your image on a foreign server and you’ll never be exactly sure what rights you have on your own images until you’re a better laywer than the one hired by your prefered photo community. One nice example: Flickr was sold to Yahoo AFTER they had tens of thousands users and hosted millions of images. If you’re posting images to flickr right now - Do you EXACTLY know, what rights Yahoo currently owns on YOUR images?
If this is perfectly ok for you - Go on and use those communities! After givin away your personal data, you will have an account for free and no hazzle with setting up your own photoblog. There are thousands of users just waiting for you!
Technical spoken
Yapb integrates tightly into wordpress. Via Javascript DOM manipulation it injects several form additions into the standard wordpress post form. It provides additional data and functions to themes so that nearly every theme can be converted to a photoblog in virtually no time. Yapb doesn’t touch original wordpress code - It’s using it.
Support YAPB
Do you like YAPB? Do you use it regulary to show your photos or images? Did YAPB save you time? Or you just want to give something back for the time spent to create, maintain and support YAPB? Just Donate a little ammount so i may buy a good book, DVD, etc. or just pay some server traffic. Bigger ammounts (if any) will be invested in my photo equipment of course ;-)
Thanks alot from Salzburg!
There is a forum
Since there is definitly some feedback and the pages grow and grow - I suggest you use the yapb-forum to ask questions, maybe help each other, etc.
Comment by Chris
"Yet Another Photoblog", I use it, although a beta release - on my art-resource http://www.kunstimnetz.com and for me, it works really good. I am still working on getting into all the features right now (i.e., posting on photo-ressources the photoblogs, only - without the standard wordpress textblogs… ) and will show most of these gadgets within my site. Kind regards, Christian Jarolim http://www.kunstimnetz.com
Comment by Johannes
Thanks for the advertising brother ;-) Ah - before i forget - It now works with IE too - Was a little standards-incompatibility from MicroSoft. Just download the latest version and overwrite the existing plugin files.
Comment by kristin
Wow! This is just GREAT. I’m excited to try it out. I’ve been waiting for something like this for a long time. I’m not much of a coder so I couldn’t do it myself.
Comment by Johannes
Thanks for your comment - I’ve been waiting too… and decided that i didn’t want to wait any longer ;-) Please provide positive and/or negative feedback if possible!
Comment by Vickie
How can I change the size of the image that shows in the post? It is much smaller than I would like. Thank you.
Comment by Johannes
Hi - First of all upload images in a size you need them. Then change the parameters of the thumbnailer if you want to see bigger images. My sample shows thumbnails with a width of 200px - Here’s a sample for thumbnails with a width of 400px: <img src=”<?php $post->image->getThumbnailHref(array(’w=400′)) ?>” alt=”" /> Hope this helps.
Comment by Bharath Kumar
Nice, will give it a try.
Comment by Johannes
And don’t forget to give feedback ;-)
Comment by Marco Raaphorst
might be interesting. thanks! have you checked ZenPhoto? this is probably the best Photo-software for web, but maybe your plugin works great as well. one thing I didn’t find: collections.
Comment by Johannes
Hi Marco - Thanks for your tip. Didn’t knew ZenPhoto - Looks like a cool gallery solution as gallery2. As you may have read in the second sentence of the plugin description i didn’t intend to program a gallery or WP gallery plugin. There are alot of very clever and cool gallery-solutions out there - But imho a gallery is NOT a photoblog.
The original idea is: One image, one title, one description (Your photo should be worth that). Using RSS feeds, trackbacks and pinging aggregating-services like vfxy.com to interconnect photoblogs and photographers worldwide based on a stable and wide spread infrastructure: WordPress.
greets from Salzburg!
Johannes
Comment by de
your comment about the photo blog has really struck a chord with me. I have zen photo and was trying to incorporate it and wordpress - I don’t know much about code so this is a challenge to say the very least.
your your comment is on point.
the right picture is all you rally need.
I think that I’ll give this a shot, and by all means come back to let you know how I feel about it.
thanks!
Comment by Dever
Will give it a go as soon as I will have my website up and running again :)
Comment by Peter Boyd
Very nice, we are using it on http://www.lmase.info web site for an upcoming conference. Only thing that would be interesting to have is a batch upload of photos. But very nice.
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Comment by Rob
Brilliant idea - I’m just getting started with a photoblog so this will help me along the way.
Thanks!
Comment by David
Hi Johannes: This looks like an interesting project. Do you plan to add the ability to post by e-mail? (Or do you think it will work with the Wordpress plugin Postie? I haven’t investigated it enough to tell how your software works.)
http://www.economysizegeek.com/?page_id=395
If you do add post-by-mail features I would suggest including the option to have the post time be set to the time that the photo was taken (via EXIF).
Thanks
Comment by chelsea
Danke für dieses Plugin. Es wäre besser, wenn Sie ein Feld für ALT Text einricten kannst.
Comment by pood
Is there anyway to setup YAPB to display current day’s thumbs?
I’d like to have it so
there’s an large image
and below are other thumbs from today. I figured out how to get links with get_links, but I don’t think there’s anyway to display thumbs instead.
Comment by Rupert
Hi im wanting to change the plugin a bit so that on the archive page it only shows the thumbnail and the permalink title/date posted etc, rather than the post aswell, do you understand?
So I want to remove the_content, but keep the thumbnail on the archive page…
How can i Do this?
Comment by DaRoiT
Hey!, I was looking at your screenshots….where did you find a plugin for having this amazing text editor??!!, it looks like MS word!
I need it.
Thanks!
Comment by DaRoiT
Thanks!, I will try it , just know.
Danke.
Comment by Sergio
Hi there,
I notice that when I click on your screenshots the enlarge very nicely. Is that a plugin your are using to do that?
If so, can you tell me where you got it?
Comment by Sergio
Ok, I figured it out. It is called (ligthbox) and is a javascript.
For anyone interested you can find the develper’s web site here:
http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/
and a WordPress plugin version of it here:
http://www.4mj.it/lightbox-js-v20-wordpress/
It is very cool!
Comment by 3stripe
Wow, loving this plugin!
I spent AGES looking for a decent Wordpress gallery plugin, but decided to approach the problem slightly differently, and post each image to it’s own post - much easier to manage things this way… thank you for creating this plugin.
Because I’m not running a photoblog in the normal sense, my only issue is with the ordering of the images - manually editing the timestamps to change the order is a bit time consuming. Any suggestions?
Cheerio, 3stripe
Comment by Paul Mitchell aka Libertus
This kind of spam protection is very weak. When the answer to the question is "10" then the value of the hidden
mcspinfoinput is "6a0e5". I don’t even need to know the algorithm - I just refreshed the page a couple of times to confirm the relationship.How is it working for you? I admire the simplicity.
Comment by theddy
Hi
Your plugin beta 1.3.1 seems to have problems with the new WP 2.1 which was released.
The editor in WP is broken by the field to implement a picture in post - the buttons "save", "publish" can’t be recognized correctly.
If I disable YAPB the editor has no problems.
Thanks.
Comment by Martie
Just wanted to say thank you for the plugin….It was easy to implement. :)
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Comment by Chris Abraham
Hi there. I am about to install YAPB but I want to ask you first if this tool has integration with either GD or another server-based "photoshop" dynamic resizing tool? I didn’t dig very deep but I am running through lots of them. Thanks in advance. I am assuming the thumbnail is dynamically-rendered.
Comment by Lyus
Tag und Grüße nach Österreich- Tolles Plugin, habe es installiert und funzt super, weiter so, ein Link ist natürlich schon vorhanden!
greets Lyus
Comment by jim
A photo blog with only one image max. YOU ARE A GENIUS! /sarcasm
Comment by Velmu
YAPB saved my day! Now running the finnish Canon EOS 20th anniversary photo competition site on it: http://eos.fi/dyn/velmu/
The only problem is that I need to reset cache when saving, so I don’t end up scaling images for every user.
Simply awesome stuff :)
Comment by Jehzeel Laurente
wow cool photoblog! its soOOO amazing!! whoAWWW ^___^
Comment by Jürgen
Hot Photoblog. Very interesting. Thanks guys. Jürgen from Germany :-)
Comment by mosey
I’m new to the concept of photoblogging, but the team that has come together for a new website often use Stumbleupon on a daily basis with what looks like photoblog/tumblelog esque template. I’m trying to make the transition easier, but was wondering if there would ever be the option of e.g.
1. using a url instead of the uploaded picture
2. using a transloader
etc.
Thanks :D
Comment by Artepp
Hello, I cannot post the data exif on my blog. I am testing it locally with xampp before launching it on the distant waiter. Can you help me please?
Comment by Michael
Looks nice! I will give it a try …
Comment by Frank
Hi Johannes,
haste Dir Dein Layout hier schonmal im IE6 angeschaut - voller lustiger dicker blauer Punkte unter jeder Verlinkung, die Einiges unlesbar machen …
Comment by Markus
Hi Johannes,
ich liebe dein Plugin, es ist einfach nur genial! Ich verwende es in Verbindung mit einem Rating Plugin für WordPress und bin einfach nur begeistert.
Herzlichen Dank und mach weiter so! :)
Comment by Alan Rolfe
Hi Johannes
Just wanted t osay what a great plugin this is.. really very impressed! I’ve used it with the Grain theme and all seems to have worked fine.
http://wwww.ardpix.co.uk/pblog
Comment by stephen
Any idea why this is happening?
WordPress database error: [Table 'wordpress.wp_yapbimage' doesn't exist]
SELECT * FROM wp_yapbimage WHERE post_id = 3
Comment by dark_dante
i got this too [Table ‘wordpress.wp_yapbimage’ doesn’t exist]
looked for help here but didn find it any help is welcome ty
Comment by Johannes
Version 1.6.2 should fix that bug created in 1.6.1.
Greets from Salzburg!